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Re: Europa-List: facebook or twitter

Subject: Re: Europa-List: facebook or twitter
From: Andrew Sarangan <asarangan@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 7 May 2014 15:45:49

Facebook has always surprised me with the huge number of buttons you
have to press to do simple things, and having to reload the entire
page after each click.

Email can be read with an ascii browser such as lynx. The versatility
of email cannot be beaten, yet.


On Wed, May 7, 2014 at 12:30 PM, Ivor Phillips
<ivor.phillips@ntlworld.com> wrote:
>
> Exactly has Frans put it! You wouldn't see me using face book or twitter,
> Emails may now be old hat but they work for me and with a decent search engine
for past topics
> Much more user friendly IMO
> Ivor Phillips
>
> Sent from my iPad
>
>> On 7 May 2014, at 16:21, Frans Veldman <frans@privatepilots.nl> wrote:
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>>> On 05/06/2014 07:50 PM, g-fizy wrote:
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>>> Can i just throw a thought out to you all ,should we move to
>>> facebook or twitter ,, I am not a big fan of this old style forum
>>> ,,perhaps we could bring this up at the AGM :-)
>>
>> Hell no! I don't and won't have a facebook account. They are nor
>> interested in you, nor in airplanes. They are only interested in money
>> in whatever way they can get it. They sell everything a healthy
>> individual would consider "private". Have seen the "like-buttons"
>> everywhere? They act as little spies: once you are in their system
>> they can track whatever website you visit, what your interests are, etc.
>> Have noticed their stock value? Divide that by the amount of users and
>> you will find that each individual user is worth about 150 US$. That
>> is what some unknown parties pay them to obtain all your data and
>> statistics.
>> George Orwell was an optimist, only about 30 years too early.
>>
>> I don't care if individuals give away their privacy to facebook to let
>> them collect 150 US$ for it, but I don't want to be part of this
>> system. That means that once this forum is moved to facebook it will
>> be without me.
>>
>> Frans
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